Tenuis bilabial click
| (Tenuis) bilabial click | |
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| ʘ | |
| IPA number | 176 |
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| Entity (decimal) | ʘ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+0298 |
| Kirshenbaum | p! |
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The voiceless or more precisely tenuis bilabial click is a click consonant found in some languages of southern Africa. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʘ⟩. A second convention, now obsolete, was ⟨ɋ ⟩.
Features of the tenuis bilabial click:
Tenuis bilabial clicks only occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa.
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